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A Troubling Disconnect
grant-whitty-686222-unsplash.jpg Throughout my many years of service in our church, I cannot recall any instance when official actions appeared to me to be at odds with what I deemed the Spirit to be...
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“If Our Faith Doesn't Change Things, It Doesn't Really Matter”
Brown-Nathan-Sydney-Adventist-Forum-600-400-px.jpg Nathan Brown, prolific reader and writer and Book Editor at the Signs Publishing Company in Australia, talks about his latest book, a collection of...
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Triggering Public Reprimands: Simple Majorities are Not Enough
davide-ragusa-24118-unsplash.jpg The overwhelming number of Adventists around the world love people more than policies and together we will stop this unworthy practice. When it comes to denominational...
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Summer Reading Group: “The Two Most Important Choices You Will Make Today”
2018-08-03 Summer Reading Group.png This is the third post of Spectrum’s 2018 Summer Reading Group. Each post will be drawn from chapters of the book Stand out of our Light by James Williams. This is...
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Answers to Questions about the Proposed Adventist University System of North...
2018-08-07-interview.png At a special summit of the 13 Adventist higher education institutions in North America that begins later this week, attendees will discuss creating closer ties in the form of a...
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My Missionary Family in Korea
2018-08-16-voices.png A trip to Seoul last week sparked a renewed interest in my great-grandparents, who were some of the first Adventist missionaries to Korea, serving there from 1917 to 1932....
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Math Teacher Cycles 2,300 Miles to Teacher's Convention
At Finish.jpg Monte Saxby, math and science teacher at Skagit Adventist Academy in Washington state talks about his epic cross-country cycle to the North American Division teachers’ convention in...
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From Union Conferences to their Presidents: General Conference Considers...
target.jpg Deciding not to aim the canons of compliance at union conferences but at their presidents is a desperate and doomed attempt finally to find a place where the exercise of coercive...
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Summer Reading Group: "You Are the Product”
2018-08-20 Summer Reading Group.png In the fourth post of Spectrum’s 2018 Summer Reading Group, Ronald Osborn discusses Chapters 6 and 7 of "Stand out of our Light" by James Williams. This is the...
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The Surprising Things That Impact Your Health
2018-08-20-interview.png Harvard professor David R. Williams shares insights about how experiences of discrimination are powerful predictors of health, the origin of the segregated regional conferences...
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Montemorelos Student Talks About Winning Adventist Mission Film Contest
2018-08-27-interview.png As the deadline for this year's Adventist Mission second short film contest approaches on August 31, last year's winner Rachel Fortunato, talks about what it was like to win...
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Summer Reading Group: Dis-Ordered and Re-ordered Loves
2018-08-27 Summer Reading Group.png In the fifth post of Spectrum’s 2018 Summer Reading Group, Zane Yi discusses Chapters 8 and 9 of "Stand out of our Light" by James Williams. This is the fifth post...
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Church Democracy and Orthodox Faith
church-preston-goff-689933-unsplash.jpg The Gifts of the Spirit are diverse, but all are given by the same unifying Spirit. Why are we so afraid of the concept of unity in diversity when the Godhead,...
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Adventism’s Shocking Fulfillment of Prophecy
church-marc-olivier-jodoin-406228-unsplash.jpg The nature of Adventism in the future is what is at stake in October. We will either stand against the drive toward papalism at Annual Council 2018 while...
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Unity by Authoritarian Means
sign-sean-thomas-556696-unsplash.jpg By the thousands and the tens of thousands, Adventists must now, every one of us — resist. Editor’s Note: This editorial appeared in the most recent print issue of...
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Book Review: Transforming the Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians
2018-09-04-bookreview.png Transforming captures the lives, experiences, and truths of scripture and the Christian journey of transgender people better than any book I have read to date. The June 9,...
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Is there a Fundamental Shift in Church Governance Coming?
church.jpg At the heart of this governance issue are these questions: Should policy, compliance, and coercion be the way to solve an issue that is for many one of conscience? And do we want to see our...
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Multimedia Ministry Reaches out to Mothers in Australia
Melody-Tan.jpg Mums at the Table magazine editor Melody Tan talks about how an 18-month-old ministry in Australia is targeting non-Adventist mothers of young children, working to create community in a...
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Summer Reading Group: The Perils and Promise of Media Technology
2018-09-07 Summer Reading Group.png In the sixth post of Spectrum’s 2018 Summer Reading Group, Nicholas Miller discusses Chapters 10 and 11 of "Stand out of our Light" by James Williams. This is the...
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